Mumbai: Former Cricket Board president Raj Singh Dungarpur today sounded a warning that Twenty20 cricket will lead to further erosion of Indian batting which is already showing the ill-effects of a overdose of one-day cricket.

"I am a part of the Cricket Board and Mr Sharad Pawar (BCCI chief) has done a lot for the game, but I am afraid that Twenty20 cricket will be the final nail on the coffin of Indian cricket," Dungarpur said at a book release function here.

"Because of the preponderance of one-day cricket today no Indian batsman looks capable of saving a Test match. There are a few who can win the matches but saving a match under intense pressure is even more difficult," said Dungarpur.

"Twenty20 cricket will lead to further erosion of Indian batsmen's technique and temperament (in Test cricket)", he further said while expressing dismay at the Indian team's display in the ongoing second Test against South Africa at Durban.

Extolling the feats of former middle order Test batsman Sandeep Patil, who has co-authored the book of funny cricket anecdotes "Caught and Told" with senior sports scribe Clayton Murzello, Dungarpur said there were very few cricketers who would support the inclusion of another player at the danger of losing his own place as Patil did during his career.

"I was the manager of the team in England in 1986 when Patil pleaded with me repeatedly to somehow include 'Jimmy' (Mohinder) Amarnath even though that would have meant his own exclusion (from the eleven). But both played ultimately," he recalled.